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Monica McNerney Wins 2016 Three Minute Thesis Competition
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After successfully boiling years of research on bacterial biosensors down to a three-minute presentation, Monica McNerney took home first place at Georgia Tech's Three Minute Thesis competition.
McNerney, a doctoral student in Bioengineering, was one of 10 doctoral students to compete in the final round of the competition on Nov. 15. Her presentation, Bacterial Biosensors: Low-cost, Field-friendly Nutrition Tests, earned McNerney a $2,000 research travel grant.
The following finalists also took home research travel grants:
- Second Place: Tesca Fitzgerald, Human Centered Computing, Teaching Robots to Learn Skills
- Third Place: Bharath Hebbe Madhusudhana, Physics, Reading out the Geometry from an Atom's Memory
- People's Choice (tie): Aravind Samba Murthy, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Recovering Kinetic Energy Using Electric Motors, and Bharath Hebbe Madhusudhana, Physics, Reading out the Geometry from an Atom's Memory
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Monica McNerney, a doctoral student in Bioengineering, won the 2016 Three Minute Thesis competition.
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- Created By: Brian Gentry
- Created: 11/16/2016
- Modified By: Amelia Pavlik
- Modified: 11/16/2016
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